Montana Code Annotated · § 50-40-102 — Intent -- purpose

The legislature finds and declares that the purposes of this part are as follows:

(1) to protect the public health and welfare by prohibiting smoking in public places and places of employment;

(2) to recognize the right of nonsmokers to breathe smoke-free air; and

(3) to recognize that the need to breathe smoke-free air has priority over the desire to smoke.